2008 has been the year of me fucking up the left side of my body and then not taking any action on it causing the situation to probably become worse than it needed to be.

First, I land on my foot the wrong way when playing beach volleyball barefoot, and the big toe on my left foot gets bent down too hard. At first I thought I may have broken broke it, then I figured it was just sprained, and I never went to a doctor. Now I'm starting to wonder if it was really broken, though. It healed well enough and it's not causing me any pain, but I can't crack my toe like I'm cracking my knuckles anymore on the left side, only the right. I know I used to be able to do that with my left foot, but it doesn't do it anymore.

Then I cut myself on a metal can because I was an idiot. Mistake #1: Using a shitty can opener that was so cheap it was completely non-functional and was not only hard to hold but actually didn't cut anything. Mistake #2: Giving up on the can opener and deciding it would somehow be easier to pry the top open with a butter knife. That evidently sometimes results in accidentally slipping and cutting your hand on the sharp metal edge. Mistake #3: Not having band-aids beforehand for some reason? Mistake #4: Not taking your friend's advice when he says to use superglue and glue the cut back together so it heals better. Want to see what happened?



See that? Notice the horizontal line on the groove of my hand? Notice how it doesn't fucking match up in the same place on the other side? Technically it might've been like that the whole time, but I'm 99% sure I just fucked up my hand and had it grow back in the wrong place.

Those kinds of things are why I can see how people would want to get plastic surgery or a tattoo. On one hand, you're altering your body permanently and irreversibly, but on the other hand, everything does that. Technically, what I ate for breakfast this morning had a small permanent effect on my body, so why not go out and get crazy piercings and tattoos? My body isn't permanent, it's constantly undergoing change and recycling itself slowly. Life is crazy.